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Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

197. James Grant

These verses occur in a manuscript collection of C.K. Sharpe's ("second collection"), with slight verbal differences. They are written in long lines not divided into stanzas. Sir W. Scott remarks, Sharpe's Ballad Book, 1880, p. 145, "I conceive Ballindalloch, being admitted by Grant, set upon him, and that there should be asterisks between the fourth line [the second stanza] and those which follow."

   11. Away, away now, James the Grant.
12. You'll.
13. For Ballendalloch is at your gate.
21,4. Badendalloch.
22. Nor I.
23. Set up my gat both.
24. And let.
31. James the.
34. no get so.
43. he get but one mile in the highland hill.
44. defy the.
198. Bonny John Seton.

P. 52. A. Found in a Manuscript of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, and in "North Country Ballads," Miscellanea Curiosa, Abbotsford Library (another copy of the same pieces), with the following variations.

Sharpe.  13. The Southeron lords to.
21. And bonny: Pitmedden, and always.
22. bald.
24. And the.
34. Sat on.
52. Cried, Brave soldiers.
55. my steed back.
56. But let me never see thee.
63. And his.
74. That dang Pitmedden's middle in three.
81,2. rade.
83. But bonny John Seton of Pitmedden.
91. Then up it came a.
92. from Drimmorow.
93. Says, There thou lies.
94. ride thee thorow.
101. Craigyvar (always): man.
102. your fiddle.
103. land.
121. They 've taken.
144. ring.
151. For cannons roars: summer's.
152. Like thunder.
154. cannons fair.
Scott (also).  31. lands.
None of the readings in Aytoun given in the notes at p. 53 were derived from Sharpens copy except A 83, and all of them may now be dropped.

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